Balkenende and the CDA

Balkenende has resigned. No surprise, but it still had to happen. A new party leader has not been announced, and this will become a painful process.

Turnout is relatively low: only 74%. What seems to have happened is that about one third of the CDA voters stayed home. That’s good news for now, but it also means the christian-democrats may recover quite a bit once they have a better leader.

This is the political blog of Peter-Paul Koch, mobile platform strategist, consultant, and trainer,
in Amsterdam. It’s a hobby blog where he follows Dutch politics for the benefit of those twelve
foreigners that are interested in such matters, as well as his Dutch readers.